NGC6559
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Imaging
Equipment:
- Telescope:
Takahashi FS-152 f/8 fluorite refractor at f/6.
- Zeiss
II German Equatorial Mount
- Santa
Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array)
- CWF8
color filter wheel with IR-blocking red, green and blue dichroic filters
Exposure
Information:
- Date:
Friday June 22, 2001
- Location:
Mt. Pinos, CA
- Elevation:
Approx. 8300', OAT +44F
- Composition:
RGB (25:25:70 minutes). 60 minutes of Ha exposures were taken but were not
used in the final composition.
- All
exposures were 5 minutes each.
Notes:
- North
is to the right.
- This
object lies 1.5 degrees east of the Lagoon Nebula, M8.
- The
compact red feature at the left edge of the image is the magnitude 16.0
planetary nebula PK 6-2.1.
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